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Pilots often head to wrong airports, reports show

By Joan Lowy
Published February 10, 2014 11:16pm ET
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Pilots often head to wrong airports, reports show
FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2014 file photo, Southwest Airlines Flight 4013 sits at the M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport in Hollister, Mo. On nearly 150 flights, U.S. commercial air carriers have either landed at the wrong airport or started to land and realized their mistake in time, according to a search by The Associated Press of government safety databases and media reports since the early 1990s. (AP Photo/Springfield News-Leader, Valerie Mosley, File) | Valerie Mosley

Do you know the way to San Jose? Quite a few airline pilots apparently don’t.

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